On a recent night, I attempted to leave the parking lot at the Meadow Green Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, which is located on Woburn Street in Waltham. Fortunately, I was headed towards Lexington. I passed a bumper-to-bumper line of cars attempting to gain access to Trapelo Road. This line of stalled cars extended all the way to the Waltham-Lexington boundary and beyond. There were five or six cars idle in Lexington!

While the addition of traffic lights at the Forest Street entrance to Trapelo Road is commendable, it now appears that the Woburn connection to Trapelo Road deserves a traffic light!

The volume of traffic on both Trapelo and Woburn continues to increase daily. The next accident at this busy intersection is waiting to happen as drivers become impatient and annoyed and reckless.

While I currently live in the Avalon apartment complex in Lexington, which is very close to Meadow Green, my interest in everything that concerns Waltham stems from wonderful Waltham experiences during my four years at Saint Mary’s High, from which I graduated in 1943.